SpaceX Florida's New Major Update 2023...is here!!!

foreign, but Starbase is no longer

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's Mars Gateway; However, any mission to Mars can depart exclusively from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; However, 2022 is just the beginning, this transition will be made official next year and on today's episode of Great SpaceX, let's take a look at starship's new home for

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at a time when SpaceX had intended to build its Starship rocket at the docks in Los Angeles, they radically changed the design to use polished 304l stainless steel instead of carbon composite and moved its manufacturing to Texas, then a strange rapid prototyping effort. , a shiny and somewhat rough-looking rocket began to take shape at Spacex's Boca Chica lot off the Texas coast;

The first test article was equipped with fuel and oxidizer tanks and was subjected to tied fire from a single Raptor engine, and a taller version was eventually designed. for jump flights and perhaps even orbital testing began to grow in its Texas weed patch, however, as an environmental assessment clears the way for test flights of giant rockets into orbit from Starbase, Texas may have lost its right to future historic flights to Mars, Musk said. that SpaceX eventually plans to move Starship operations to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, w

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the company is building a new launch tower and already has all the necessary permits for orbital launches.

Last year, the company also began moving forward with construction of a Starship launch site at Launch Complex 39a at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida provides another option for Starbase launch complex and development. They pushed for its construction in Florida while waiting for the FAA to complete a review of the environmental impact of orbital launches at the 47-acre Starbase complex in September. The second launch tower officially reached its final height becoming the second tallest rocket-related structure, excluding lightning towers on the East Coast, second only to NASA's iconic Vehicle Assembly Building. Starbase Florida is making great progress, but t

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is still a lot of work between SpaceX and preparing for launch.

Work will be completed quickly between now and before the second quarter of

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. In case you're wondering where this timeline came from, let's take a look at a rare tweet from Musk about the Starship schedule, probably in the second quarter of next year, with vehicles initially transferred by boat. From the port of Brownsville to the cape that practically sits there, we will see the launch of rockets destined for Mars from Florida; Additionally, SpaceX will complete its second next-generation starship factory to supply multiple planned launch sites in Florida with its own spacecraft and super-heavy boosters in 2023. Taking a closer look at this slide, we can determine that the opening for vehicles entering and exiting Highway 3 will be on the north side and the star factory will feature two different roof heights that will likely accommodate the nose cone payload.

Bay stacking. SpaceX has also filed

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d plans for the Roberts Road Starship production area, the main factory now totals six hundred forty thousand square feet or about sixty thousand two hundred square meters, which is one hundred thirty-six thousand square feet or 12 600 square meters larger. As in previous plans, this also confirms that there will be two high bays each measuring 32,136 square feet or around 3,000 square meters. Once completed, the company will have much more space to build and stack ships and boosters, laying the groundwork for Starship's next mass production. What is notable is that with the ambitious goal of carrying out up to one hundred launches next year, SpaceX also hopes to increase its productivity by consolidating its resources on the Space Coast.

See a much more centralized location, the company is working in cooperation with NASA to expand its operations at the Kennedy Space Center. It will do so by increasing its footprint by up to one hundred acres. The proposed expansion would take place on SpaceX's leased property along Roberts Road, the site where the company renews the Falcon 9 first stage boosters at Hangar X. SpaceX told NASA it would take up 100 acres additional facilities to develop a facilities office that would handle the following vehicles and payloads processing manufacturing storage manufacturing shipping and receiving SpaceX also plans to build an approximately 1.6-mile Connector Road that would run from NASA Parkway to the Roberts Road facility One of the main Reasons for this desired expansion is to make room for the work that will be done on Starship at this time.

Testing of Spacex's Starship superheavy rocket is underway in Boca Chica, Texas, the site of the Starship facility where the reusable rocket's first orbital flights took place. The rocket will launch later this year, but as Starship comes online, there will be less need for a vibrant testing program at Boca Chica Beach at that time, as Musk said the south Texas site will likely remain. as a research and development center and finally, it is very likely that Spacex's second launch pad will be built on the cape. Both SpaceX and NASA officials have confirmed they are moving forward with plans to modify the company's second Florida launch pad to support crew and cargo Dragon missions as Reuters first reported in June SpaceX began studying the possibility of modifying its Cape Canaveral Space Force Station LC40 platform for Dragon missions earlier this year after NASA raised concerns about risks posed by plans to operate its next-generation Starship rocket from the only platform available for Dragon with respect to type.

There's no word on what upgrades lc40 will need, but it's more likely that NASA will require SpaceX to create facilities similar to those on pad 39a. This would require the construction of a new crew access tower, crew access arm, escape system, and astronaut bunker on site. While NASA is largely responsible for the need for a backup Dragon launch pad, the agency will likely require the presence of that backup before allowing SpaceX to launch Starship from pad 39a; However, SpaceX's ability to complete the LC40 modification by the second quarter of 2023 is Regardless, it is extremely doubtful that Spacex's Florida Chapter will be more explosive than ever next year and is really worth the wait.

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